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Post by Min on Dec 2, 2004 14:04:57 GMT 11
Good thinking 99!
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Post by Clare on Dec 2, 2004 14:09:58 GMT 11
The family, the presents, the crackers, the hats, the songs... they are all instrumental in bringing about the food. I'm shocked that it wasn't an option in the poll.
Yes.... the food, it's all about the food.
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Post by Elspeth on Dec 2, 2004 14:15:09 GMT 11
LOL Buneater! I recognise that santa hat - I think I used the exact same one off a google search yesterday to decorate the little ADA CAD logo on our company's web site. Hehe - that's exactly where I got it from! Good old Google image search...  |
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Post by Min on Dec 2, 2004 16:08:41 GMT 11
LOL! That's TOTALLY trippy!!
snookage for google!!
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Post by Brownie on Dec 2, 2004 16:16:29 GMT 11
I said the prezzies...but more of giving than recieving!!! I just love the smiles and hugs I get from giving people presents!
Brownie and her elves!
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Post by Miska on Dec 2, 2004 22:02:16 GMT 11
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Post by Rilla on Dec 3, 2004 8:20:52 GMT 11
Yes... yay for books!
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Post by brydie on Dec 3, 2004 17:52:54 GMT 11
wow, miska!! a car for your sister!! thats sooo nice!!!
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Post by Brownie on Dec 3, 2004 18:17:40 GMT 11
*sobbs* I wish my family would get me a car!!!!
*drys eyes*
We do the family thing too.....last year we bought an X-Box!! My little bro was ova the moon!
Brownie and her elves!
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Post by Seagull Fred on Dec 4, 2004 11:04:34 GMT 11
You're all gonna laugh at me when I admit this... ... ... but I still put out Christmas stockings  I've told my folks that it's going to be that way till I move out of home  so it'll be this year and next year, at least. And till year 12 I was still leaving out a glass of sherry for Santa, and a carrot for Rudolph...we had guinea-pigs, then, so it wasn't as bad as it sounds... I reckon I love the festive air the most. Stuff like putting up the Christmas tree, or hearing the daggy carols in the shopping malls (and blindmouse, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen is my Christmas Seasons Starter Button too!!! TRUE, I SWEAR!!!) or wearing a new pair of Christmas earrings (I must suggest this to everyone - the last few years I've bought one new pair of decent Christmas eaarrings each year, so begin wearing them on December 1st, alternating different pairs each day till Christmas). And my mum has a type of tradition of baking many Christmas cakes - fruit cakes, really, but somehow they become "Christmas cakes". She bakes one for us, two more for our grandparents, and one for my siblings. Yum!!!! But yes. Carn the Christmas Tree!! Lauren P.S. Can I just say that I really don't see the problem of Sydney not having masses of Christmas decorations? I mean, yes, some are good, and it's sort of expected, but couldn't they just spend the money on some more useful things, like employing a few more nurses or doctors or summat?! Anyway. I don't live in Sydney, so it's none of my business, but I just wanted to say that... |
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Post by ~Ethereal~ on Dec 4, 2004 15:21:54 GMT 11
Speaking of christmas spirit, mum took this of our house the other night. I'm nto sure how good the quality is, btu I thought I'd upload it here. It's gonna be as big as the other ones I've posted, 'casue I'm too inept to know how to make it smaller..... So sorry guys.  |
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Post by Talmina on Dec 4, 2004 15:26:59 GMT 11
dont worry lauren, i did it up until last christmas too, but then mum turned around and said no cos i was 18 and wasnt a kid anymore, hell it was 1 week after my birthday, my brother was 21 before he stopped getting santa presents.
raineth, thats a brilliant idea for getting rid of the dummies, we're trying to get my niece to stop using hers, especially during the day, though shes mostly got the point about not talking through it now. good luck and i hope such an ingenious plan works
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Post by Tammy on Dec 6, 2004 18:42:21 GMT 11
YOU FORGOT CAROLS!!!! I love the carols!
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Post by Talmina on Dec 6, 2004 18:57:14 GMT 11
ethereal, woah, do you actually need to turn lights on in your house atm. though it looks georgeous
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Post by ~Ethereal~ on Dec 6, 2004 20:30:16 GMT 11
hehe. I can turn off all the lights in my room, and still have no trouble reading.  Over the years I've gotten used to sleepign in the light during December. |
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Post by Talmina on Dec 6, 2004 21:39:41 GMT 11
lol, its almost like that with a full moon at my house. you dont need a torch to go outside if its a clear night and a full moon
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Post by Ashta on Dec 7, 2004 11:40:27 GMT 11
I find christmas all rather confusing. For one, I'm wiccan and therefore follow the seasonal changes, and allthough christmas holds pagan traditions such as holly wreaths, trees, fires, gift giving etc... that's a midwineter festival to me.
And at the moment it's coming up to midsummer which is a very different sort of festival to yule. So I find myself at Christmas swimming through winter-y stuff and trying to stay true to the spirit of midsummer!
I'm sorry I'm ranting, but i do love the festiveness of christmas, even it is it back to front for me!
-Ashta
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Post by Min on Dec 7, 2004 11:56:02 GMT 11
Ashta - happy Hogmanay |
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Post by Elspeth on Dec 7, 2004 15:52:45 GMT 11
Ethereal - your house looks fantastic! But don't you get sick of all the people driving past to ooh and aah over it? I'm a real sucker for Christmas lights. Last weekend, I went out with my brother and almost-sister-in-law to look at Christmas lights. There weren't many, but it was still fun. I just love it. Some people go to so much effort - 'tis quite incredible. Ashta> I think it's weird how I've grown up with all the traditional Christmas images of snow and people in big red coast, yet I still associate Christmas with bright sunlight and dry, hot days. I was amazed - the European conditioning didn't work on me! ;D |
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Post by ~Ethereal~ on Dec 7, 2004 17:37:09 GMT 11
Ashta, I'm wiccan too. Btu I've alwasy been able to juggle the two. At all the major holidays there's 2 holidays going on in our household. Our family manages to intermingle them pretyt well. I guess its jsut liek a household that juggles Channukah (i have no idea how to spell that,s orry guys) and christmas. And, no Buneater. Not usually. I love haveing everyone tell us how nice it looks. It makes the effort worthwhile. Although, the light is a bit of a pain sometiems. If you look in te righthand corner where that flood light is......thats' my bedroom window.  And I have really crappy blinds. |
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Post by Elspeth on Dec 7, 2004 19:48:45 GMT 11
And, no Buneater. Not usually. I love haveing everyone tell us how nice it looks. It makes the effort worthwhile. Ah, that's good to hear. I often think people must get sick of people like me and my brother driving past making appreciative sounds at the displays. I feel much more confident about it all now. |
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Post by Cat-Eyes on Dec 9, 2004 11:23:49 GMT 11
My family's pretty easy because a) the other side gets on well with this side and b)the other side doesn't live in Melbourne anyway...
Everyone comes to my place cause we have the best place to host it, also this year we have the extension and kitten. We usually have my parents, my brother, my grandarents, my great-grandfather, my uncle, my uncle's second wife, my cousins (from my uncle's first marriage, he doesn't have kids from the second. It's about the only time we ever see one of my cousins, at Christmas and Easter) and I think we might be having my cousin's girlfriend. Oh, and my uncle's second wife's mum, step dad and sister (who has a mental disability) also come.
We used to also invite my Godfather's ex wife cause all her family lives in Adelaide, until they like ruined Christmas one year... *shakes fist at them*
Ok, I'm going to tell the story.
Kerry (godfather's ex wife) and her bf of the time (whoose name I can't remember...) arrived and there was some tension there. We found out later he didn't want to come, but she'd forced him to. Anyway, they were down the end with the kids, and he didn't seem very nice but we dealt with it. After main course and before desert, they went up the other end where the bedrooms are. I went to the toilet (which is opposite my brother's room) and I heard them arguing in the corridor and then they went into my brother's room. I went back and we were talking at the table, and then we heard this huge crash, so after a few more minutes Mum went to investigate. After a while she came back out and announced an ambulance would be arriving and could my brother and I go out the front to show them where to go when they got here. Which freaked us all out and you could tell my Mum was p!ssed off.
Anyway, the ambulance got there and my brother and I showed them to my brother's room where Kerry was lying on the floor. The ambo guys treated her and in the end they left. APPARENTLY what had happened was she's she'd 'tripped' backwards and landed on my brother's metal bin. e'd been trying to get her stand up and she said she couldn't, which is why my Mum had called the ambo. They'd treated her and she was ok now. Anyway, he'd been complaining about hurting his wrist, and so we were like "Yeah, how'd you do that one?" But then, even though he'd been sayng he couldn't drive cause he'd hurt his wrist, he managed to after the ambos left. So, they left and we returned to get out desert.
In the kitchen we discovered what seemed to be the cause of his sore wrist. The carving knife was jammed straight into the Turkey, through the bone. Mum was like "huh?" so she asked my Grandpa and dad (who had done the carving) if they'd done this and they were like "No, that's a stupid idea, who would do that" PLUS it would have taken a lot of force. Thus, his sore wrist.
Anyway, Christmas continued, we'd been waiting over an hour for desert, but anyway. And then, we though Kerry would at least ring Mum to apologise or explain or SOMETHING, which she never did. We saw her at some time later, but I can't remember everything that happened between then.
Regardless to say she doesn't get an invite to Christmas anymore...
Yeah, that's the story...
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Cat
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Post by Ashta on Dec 9, 2004 11:55:09 GMT 11
lol, i find juggling the two a nuisence more than anything. For some people I'm buying midsummer presies (i.e. Grant) and for others i'm buying xmas pressies (i.e. my younger brothers)
But at my house because I live with my nan, we never put up any decorations or anything. It's kinda depressing because the festiveness is kinda cool, but on the upside, I'm not distracted from the fact that for me it's Litha!
My friend Grant is having a midsummer pool party this year very close to xmas, which I'm looking forward to more than xmas.
xmas for me usually involves awkward lunch with people I barely know who gape at me and accuse me for being overly smart and not getting a job (the whole, 'you're going to educate yourself out of any possiblity of employment' line) I find that its the time when I get patronised the most.
Also, I often spend xmas with my father in NSW. Now, its really weird and estranged by the fact that we only see each other once a year and we both hide our discomfort beneath copious amounts of alcohol.
Xmas is nothing more than a time of being awkward, getting patronised and trying desperately to understand the relationship between my father and I.
But Litha (midsummer, a few days before Xmas)... Litha brings out the best in me. I really take the time to soak up the spiritual atmosphere of summer and I finally manage to center and re-align myself with nature after a hard year of study. If anything, it's Litha that helps me stay sane through that aweful experience of xmas day.
love and light
Ashta
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Post by lunicatcalledelf on Dec 10, 2004 19:24:47 GMT 11
hmm that was a hard question to answer. I literally sat there for 5 mins trying to decide which to chose. I ended up having to decide between festive air and quality family time. I decided to be different and pick quality family time. If you knew my family ud understand. Christmas is GREAT!! I love it soooo much! We have to have Christmas in the afternoon this year coz my brother is working which means we don't have to wake up at 6:30 in the morning. YAY FOR CHRISTMAS!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by Feather on Dec 12, 2004 17:50:16 GMT 11
*long hearty sigh* reading all these messages has rekindled my chrissy spirit a little! I loved hearing about what makes the day special for all of you. So thanks guys! I think the hats are my favourite bit too... and the godawful jokes you get in the chrissy crackers. The commercialisation and the waste of christmas drive me nuts, though. Yesterday the boyfriend and I were out doing some christmas shopping for an early chrissy with our cousins, and we found ourselves on the verge of buying a whole lot of pressies that nobody would want or need - and thereby about to contribute to the waste and over-consumption that's endemic to the western world. Honestly, so much waste. In the end we decided to spend a bit more and buy gifts that were more likely to be used and / or liked, but it ended up being a bit of a budget blow-out. meh. I still do love christmas. Ho ho ho everyone Feather. |
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I've told my folks that it's going to be that way till I move out of home 
And I have really crappy blinds. 
